Anna Chao Pai was born in Beijing, China, and immigrated at age four to the United States with her family in 1940. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Zoology from Sweet Briar College, a master’s degree in Embryology from Bryn Mawr College, and a Ph.D. degree in Genetics from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Pai taught at Montclair State University in New Jersey for twenty-eight years and retired as Professor Emerita. She and her late husband, Dr. David Pai, have two grown sons and four grandchildren.

From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream: An Anecdotal Memoir of Two Immigrant Lives